Slater Montessori Academy, Fountain Valley | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

When My son started, he got evaluated to see if he could fit in the same class age range and he passed. What didn’t sit well with me, was that the teacher treated my son as if he was there from day one when it came to homework. I mean in some sense that’s fine but when it comes to development, learning, skills and his ability, that should of been on a whole new level of evaluation. I believe by the teacher providing the same work to all students, it helps make the teacher’s job easier. They gave him homework like all the other kids but they gave him the same addition math homework as everyone else. My son has never done math work before, the teacher should of started him off with 1+1, 1+2 and not 5+1 and 5+9, etc. When we left the school, my son’s last math homework was 7+8 and 7+9. This caused a bit of a stress on my son and me.

After about a month, my son’s teacher was moved to a different class. I soon found out that teachers were being favored over others. Teachers are talking to parents about other teachers and among themselves obviously. That’s when I decided to pull my son out of the school because I’m not sure if I wanted him to be in such environment. I did bring this up to the director’s attention and was not happy on how she approached the situation. The director asked me who I obtained these information from. I was not comfortable providing the names of the people that was informing me of what was and is going on. She left me with an unprofessional feeling and not how you would run a school. I informed her instead of me providing names, you should addressed the issue with your whole staff. She than came back and told me that because I didn’t provide names, she wrote all her staff up with a warning. Which again left me feeling unprofessional because I didn’t think that was something she needed to let a parent know.

His new main teacher who came from another classroom. Did not took the time to greet the parents when we came to pick up our kids. It’s always the assistant. I tried to say hello and talk to her when I come to pick up my son because I believe that parent and teacher should have relationship. She seems to shy away and avoid eye contact. Which leaves me to think, how is she teaching and interacting with the kids. I had to informed the director that the cubby area floor always have jackets on the floor and kids, staff and parents could easily tripped over and hurt themselves.

My son was on anabiotic and drops. I provided to the school with paperwork and specific instructions on providing the medication to my son. I also instructed that the medication have to be refrigerated. I came to pick up my son one day to find his medication on the counter……room temperature. This could’ve caused harm to my son. He was unable to continue with medication and I had to email the doctor. Lucky he was ok to discontinue the medication because if he had continue the medication it would have not worked to its fullest. I was pretty upset how irresponsible the teacher was. I understand that she has a room full of students to attend too but with something so important I would’ve of thought she would make that her priority with the assistant and director to help assist.

Last, I reached out to another Montessori to obtained the owner’s contact information because I believe that the owner needs to be aware of what’s going on in her schools. That also failed because I reached out before Easter and still haven’t gotten call back as I was told the she really wanted to talk to me about what happened. So that also left me feeling unprofessional. I’m sorry but Maria Montessori would not be proud to know that her name and goal was not kept up to it’s name.

I attended this preschool a long time ago, back in the mid to late 2000s, and I gotta say, it was a good experience for me to get out of my home and explore the world in which I live in as well as to check out and learn the basics of education for the first time in my life. I enjoyed my preschool years there, except that there was this one teacher who played with the kids as if they were her toys and was sometimes a little too impatient with them. She didn’t really care a lot about educating the kids at all; it seemed that all she cared about was having a job. It appears that the school needs to identify their teachers more closely, to make sure that they are fully fit and 100% reliable when it comes to educating the youngest students in the world. Overall, I think this preschool is pretty good since I learned so much there and had fun making special memories there as well. I would recommend this school to any parent looking for a reliable place where their kids can get a first glimpse of the world as well as their education.

The teachers. The work environment. The continual success that our daughter has me wanting to this school an A. No school is perfect. But as long as our daughter continues to learn at a faster than average manner. They must be doing something right. I see her homework. I see the progression. I see how she’s continually developing.